ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,195, issued on April 21, was assigned to KARL STORZ SE & Co. KG (Tuttlingen, Germany).

"Medical imaging device, medical system, method for operating a medical imaging device, and method for medical imaging" was invented by Lukas Buschle (Tuttlingen, Germany), Johannes Fallert (Tuttlingen, Germany), Werner Gobel (Tuttlingen, Germany), Klaus Hammerl (Tuttlingen, Germany) and Sebastian Wagner (Tuttlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a medical imaging device (10), comprising: a spatially and spectrally resolving image acquisition unit (12) which comprises at least one optical system (14) and at least ...